The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 18
The words of the antelope were true words--my reward shall be my undoing--they are being fulfilled!'
Who acts: words, reward, true words, my · What happens: be, fulfil, word, reward · To what, where: true words, undoing, words, antelope
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, reward, true words, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 words | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 antelope | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 antelope | det |
| 5 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 words | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 undoing | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 reward | nmod:poss |
| 11 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 undoing | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 undoing | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 undoing | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 undoing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | undoing | undoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | appos |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 fulfilled | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 20 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 words | acl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 fulfilled | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the words of the antelope | true words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | shall | my reward | my undoing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | present · passive | true words not said here | words = word | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | the antelope | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | reward | my | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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